Author Archives: Adam Schumacher
The (yearly) tax season phishing emails
With tax season or tax refund season in full swing it is almost a guarantee that you will see an increase in tax related spam and scams. First, remember the IRS does not initiate taxpayer communications through email. So any … Continue reading
MS Windows patch KB2823324 causing problems
It appears that one of the most recent patches released by Microsoft (KB2823324) causes a problem on computers running windows Vista, 7, and Server 2008 running Kaspersky antivirus. There are also reports that Brazilian editions of Windows 7 are having … Continue reading
New anti-spam service coming to campus!
In efforts to improve email spam filtering services, a new solution, Proofpoint, will be implemented in mid-March. This commercial service will replace the current Postini service used for anti-spam and anti-virus filtering. All incoming mail will be processed through the … Continue reading
omaha.com possibly infected
We have received reports of users visiting the omaha world hearld site, www.omaha.com and getting viruses downloaded to their computers. At this time, it appears that kaspersky A/V is successfully blocking these viruses, though we are cautioning everyone to avoid … Continue reading
New Phishing scam on campus
Several people have reported receiving a telephone call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft wanting to help troubleshoot a problem on their computers. The caller attempts to install “helper” software that will solve the issue, and even offers to … Continue reading
New Antivirus on Campus!
Starting this month, we will begin rolling out the replacement for our current antivirus solution, Symantec. After weeks of testing across campus we have decided to roll out Kaspersky as our replacement AV vendor. Kaspersky is known as being a … Continue reading
Wireless Security
At the recent Defcon hacker conference, an important security protocol MSCHAPv2 was shown to be easily cracked. This protocol is widely used in VPN and secure wireless to allow a user to authenticate without sending a password in the clear … Continue reading
LinkedIn passwords compromised
It appears that the passwords for over six million LinkedIn users worldwide have been compromised and released to the public. It appears that only the password list has been leaked and is not correlated to usernames, though it is probably … Continue reading
Creighton @InCommon
Creighton University is now a participating member of the InCommon federation! What does this mean? We can now more easily enable collaboration with other universities that are also members (participant list). Individuals who can log in to BLUE here at Creighton … Continue reading
Boundary Firewall Changes for DNS
On Wednesday May 23 at 0900 we will be making a change to the boundary firewall to block port 53 (DNS) inbound to all of campus, except for cu-one. We are making this change for several reasons: 1) Prevent access … Continue reading